Thank you for your interest in the St. Louis baby tooth follow-up
study.

We have 85,000 teeth from donors to the original St. Louis tooth
study. If you think your tooth may have been donated to this
study, please give us your full name (and maiden name if female)
birth date and parents' names. This will help us tremendously
once we have a full database listing the teeth we have. All information
will be kept confidential.

We will definitely contact you should
we have your tooth. Patience is necessary, however. Right now
the teeth we have are in no particular order, so--as you can
imagine--it will take us some time to enter the 85000 names
into a searchable database. Note also that the 85,000 teeth
we have are approximately ¼ of
the total teeth collected. (The others were ground into a powder
when they were originally tested).

We also currently are attempting to secure funds allowing us
to accelerate our work on this project. The response from people
like you will help convince funders that there is a great public
interest in this study. All comments about the current study,
and memories of the old one, are gladly welcomed.